CVE-2009-0556 Information

Description

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3 and PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PowerPoint file with an OutlineTextRefAtom containing an an invalid index value that triggers memory corruption as exploited in the wild in April 2009 by Exploit:Win32/Apptom.gen aka \Memory Corruption Vulnerability.\

Reference

http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2009/04/02/new-0-day-exploits-using-powerpoint-files.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/04/02/microsoft-security-advisory-969136.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/04/02/investigating-the-new-powerpoint-issue.aspx http://osvdb.org/53182 http://secunia.com/advisories/34572 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/627331 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/969136.mspx http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503453/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34351 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021967 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-132A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0915 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1290 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-019 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-017 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49632 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6204 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6279